ANNOUNCEMENTS
ANNOUNCEMENTS
November 5, 2026— The Grand Re-Opening of Nneka Osueke Art and The Inaugural Studio Osu Art Auction
Nneka Osueke announces the grand re-opening of Nneka Osueke | Studio Osu and the inaugural Studio Osu Art Auction.
The Studio Osu Art Auction is an online art auction platform which champions Black artists, designers, and creators through bi-monthly art auctions. Making its debut on November 13, 2026, the auction will feature works from Nneka’s most recent collection, A Seat at the Table.
The auction begins on Friday, November 13 at 12 noon CST and concludes on Sunday, November 15 at 8 PM CST. Click the links below to learn more.
November 9, 2023— Blooming Abroad Second Edition Release
I am happy to announce the 2nd edition rerelease of Blooming Abroad: For Black Women Traveling to Foreign Lands.
After more than three years, and my return to the US, I've come back to this book with a renewed mind and perspective. With the 2nd Edition of Blooming Abroad, readers can experience the fullness of a hardcopy with both the journaling activities and the memoir, together. I've incorporated space to complete the prompts, blank pages for writing, doodling, and taking notes.
To order your presale copy today, click here.
Gratitude,
Nneka
March 4, 2022— Solo Exhibit | A Seat At The Table
Snakes as holy messengers, a woman-led rebellion, and a woman as God; ideologies once honored, now ironic. Here at this table, we guard the gates to our history. We keep the lessons close and our ancestors closer. We honor the past and use it to inform the present. At this table, we pay homage first and foremost. We inform. We reform. When they said, "The table has turned," this was the table they were talking about...
After almost four years, Nneka Osueke takes a solo art venture with A Seat At The Table as her debut one-woman show in Thailand. ASATT is an invitation and visual history of studies on West African Spirituality before European Christianity. Pulling from her own family lineage, Osueke uses historical events and folk tales to introduce the Igbo practices of Odinala, the Yoruba Orishas, and parts of West African Vodun.
A Seat At The Table
Lido Art Space
Chiang Mai, Thailand
April 1-May 1, 2022
Champagne Toast and Artist Talk
April 2, 2022
August 22, 2021— BEINGS | Paris Debut
Making her debut in Paris, France, Nneka will be featured in Backslash Gallery's, Beings: CONTEMPORARY AFRICAN AND DIASPORIC REAPPROPRIATIONS OF BODY AND IDENTITY The fundamental question of the identity of the black body, multiple, fractured, sometimes to the point of uprooting, is a recurrent theme of artistic explorations in contemporary creation. The aesthetic reappropriation of this body by artists is often a component of an historical, geopolitical and private discourse addressing our contemporary Western societies. Backslash and the Barter Art Collectors' Club are holding a major exhibition featuring artists who work on different continents but are all connected to (or rooted in) contemporary African art and its diaspora. Beings represents a remarkable opportunity to highlight the ongoing artistic dialogues between contemporary Africa and Afro-descendants, regardless of where they live.
Beings: Contemporary African and Diasporic Reappropriations of Body and Identity
September 4-October 6, 2021
Backslash Gallery
29 Rue Notre Dame de Nazareth
Paris, France
May 22, 2021— SEX WITH ME | New York Debut
We are extremely proud to announce the New York debut of Nneka Osueke and her collective Nneka/Nicola. Together with fellow artist Christina Nicola, Nneka/Nicola, the duo created the collective as a clarion call for inclusion and honest representation in the art industry. Nneka/Nicola is proud to announce the inaugural exhibition, SEX WITH ME. Coming together in the heart of Bushwick, 20 Black & brown artists host a three-night art experience about their own sexual liberation. A huge 'thank you' to all those who supported and watched both Nicola's and Osueke's careers during the years of hard work and continuous growth leading to this monumental moment. Follow @swm.nyc for more information to come.
Sex With Me: Here We Come
Online Showing | June 3, 2021
In-House Viewing | June 4-6, 2021
Brooklyn, NY
March 14, 2021— Thailand Debut
Making her Thailand debut, Nneka will be featured with eleven other artists in Arbour x Exhibition, a show held by the Artist's Village during the Hua Hin Art Arbour Festival. Taking place during Thailand's month of Songkran, Thai New Year, Osueke will feature her latest works, "The Story of Oroma" and "Ala In The Highest pt 2." Osueke will host a workshop teaching the process she uses to achieve her gilded works of 24K Gold.
Arbour x Exhibition
Hua Hin, Thailand
April 3-25, 2021
Workshop: April 10 and 11, 2021
10AM-5PM
August 21, 2020— Nneka Set To Release Her First Book, Blooming Abroad
We are elated to announce the release of Nneka Osueke's new book, Blooming Abroad: The Black Girl's Journal-Guide-Memoir for Traveling and Living in Foreign Lands.
Not only is she forthcoming with her emotional transparency, including actual writings from her personal journal entries throughout her various travel journies, but Osueke enlightens on the logistics of living and/or traveling overseas. With the visible rise in Black travel, many of the common, often touchy, and frankly, legitimate questions which come up for the Black women find their closure and comprehension in Blooming Abroad. Book is now available in both digital and paper back.
June 22, 2019— The Prodigy Vanguard: Expression Sessions
Nneka partners up with the Jamaican Organization, Life Yard, to present The Prodigy Vanguard: Expression Sessions, my first international youth art and mental health program. During the summer of 2017, Osueke held this same creative support group just for teens in under-served areas in and around South Central Los Angeles, and is now bringing it to Kingston, Jamaica. It is time to unite the African diaspora all over the world and de-stigmatize our perception of mental health practices in order to continue this trend of global Black healing.
Kingston, Jamaica | July3-26, 2019
May 19, 2019— Every Woman Biennial
In her first official Los Angeles show, Nneka Osueke will debut two pieces from her newest collection, Of Origins and Archives: A Visual Study of Pre-Colonial Nigerian Spirituality at the Every Woman Biennial 2019, formerly known as the Whitney Houston Biennial. The 2019 Whitney Houston Biennial will be the third iteration of Christine Finley’s acclaimed women’s art exhibition and its title “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” is a rally cry for self identifying women artists to cross-pollinate with each other across a wide variety of mediums, generations, as well as racial and ethnic backgrounds. The aim of bringing together so many creative voices is to sing a collective song that celebrates the contributions of female artists and marks a moment in our communal trajectory."-EVB Website
Los Angeles, CA | June 2-12, 2019
May 1, 2019— LA Weekly Front Page Feature
Nneka's work was featured as the cover photo on LA Weekly's Art Pick for the Every Woman Biennial.
June 1, 2018— Into The Fifth | Solo Exhibit
Nneka announces her second solo exhibit, returning to her Alma mater, Sam Houston State University. When the decision is made to want something different or better, there is usually a struggle between two forces: the old way and the new one desired. Discipline and diligence, victory and defeat, a battle between the Higher Self and the lower Self are all felt on a micro (human) and macro (universal) level.The Great War exhibit depicts the chaotic journey of ascending into a new dimension and way of being, as we are forced to challenge age old systems and concepts of culture, religion, man-made law, race, and human experience. The exhibit will consist of mostly new works, including life-size figures of darkness emerging from canvas.
Huntsville, Texas | June 30 - August 11, 2018
May 1, 2018— Manifesta Biennial | Palermo, Italy
Making her debut into the European art market, Nneka has been selected as one of the artist in the ReSignifications: The Black Mediterranean Exhibitionat the Manifesta European Contemporary Art Biennial 12 in Palermo, Italy. A follow up to its sister exhibit at Harvard University, ReSignifications: The Black Mediterranean offers a revision and re-engagement of "African bodies in European art, culture, and history as it interprets and interrogates the "Blackamoor" trope in Western culture that emerged at the intersection of cross-cultural encounters shaped by centuries of migration, exchange, conquest, servitude, and exile."
Palermo, Italy | June 16-November 4, 2018